At the right moment and in the right setting, Gawain laid out in one breath the ideas he had long held in his heart—ideas he had turned over and refined in his mind for a very long time. Ever since the Divine Authority Council had first been established, he had been considering these questions concerning the ultimate order between mortals and gods. Yet even then, he had known clearly that the Divine Authority Council of that time was still far from ready to consider such matters.
But now, the sudden contact with an alien civilization—a "pioneer" that seemed to have already broken free of its shackles—made Gawain realize that some things ought to be discussed ahead of time.
To be honest, he did not dare claim that his ideas were necessarily correct. The "future" he envisioned would seem downright unimaginable to people today. It was an idea too far ahead of its time, so far ahead that even he did not know whether it could be realized. Yet the appearance of the Noi people, along with the scattered hints they had revealed during their exchanges, gave Gawain a vague feeling that his line of thought might be right.
"That sounds... like an incredible future." After a long silence around the round table, Bercetia was the first to speak. "Or rather than a vision of the future, it sounds more like a depiction of some imagined paradise..."
"But this 'imagined paradise' has a basis for existing," Rosetta Augustus said, breaking his own silence. "Once the chains of faith between mortals and gods are completely severed, we truly must consider where the gods are meant to go. If, at that time, we continue leaving all divine thrones vacant, continue keeping the public ignorant of the Divine Authority Council's core secrets, and continue